POLL: Do you believe in aliens or life outside of earth?

is there life outside of earth?

  • Yes, I believe so

    Votes: 23 60.5%

  • No way

    Votes: 6 15.8%

  • I don't know

    Votes: 5 13.2%

  • Not sure but think so

    Votes: 4 10.5%
  • Total voters
    38
Reba said:
I voted "no way" in the sense that I don't believe in extraterrestrial beings living on other planets. There is life beyond our earthly sphere but not in the sense of this poll's questions.
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I voted the same way for the same reasons. :)
 
TheWriteAlex said:
The Bible doesn't mention A LOT of things, Reba, things which have been proven by science beyond a reasonable doubt. Stop using it (the Bible) as the basis for answers to otherwise secular and purely speculative questions.


As for me, I believe 100% there are alien beings out there. In the vastness of the cosmos, we are surely not alone, but the space time continuum and our current understanding of it makes it impossible for us to ever reach life beyond our own solar system

Watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
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She can answer any way she likes, so long as it fits within the rules of AD. I happen agree with her . I also answered in a very similiar way as her.

This was very much an existential question, which brings into it one's belief system. We have to skirt around it to follow the rules, but, we shouldn't have to avoid it. Religious topics should be allowed to be covered so long as it's handled in a general way as Reba did.
 
KStiletto said:
I often thought about this entire thing called ''life," and thought what if this earth, humans, the different animals, everything was created by aliens, put on earth as some type of experiment? What if we are of their creations put on this planet to see what the turn out would be.. Maybe they wanted to see how we resolved our problems, the way they'd expect. Now that's freaking interesting! You just never know. I'd have to be insane with all that is outside of this planet to not have a complete open mind. That's why I don't read, or listen to anything that "book" says. It tends to stunt ones ability to think outside of the box.
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There was Twilight Zone show that had aliens come down to earth and the
aliens made strange things happen to the people and watch how they reacted.
People got distrustful of their neighbors and starting fighting among themselves.
The aliens where watching the people and the aliens decides they did not want to live on earth as people where too violent! It was a really neat show!
 
Oceanbreeze said:
She can answer any way she likes, so long as it fits within the rules of AD. I happen agree with her . I also answered in a very similiar way as her.

This was very much an existential question, which brings into it one's belief system. We have to skirt around it to follow the rules, but, we shouldn't have to avoid it. Religious topics should be allowed to be covered so long as it's handled in a general way as Reba did.
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It only brings in your "belief system" because it challenges it by design and because your "belief system" has no answer for it. Rather than asking, "Well, why might my belief system not have an answer?" You instead wish to disallow a rational and logical thought process. Instead of the truth, you reach a dogmatic conclusion that something must be the way it is because someone/something says so, and does not allow for possibilities outside that "belief system."
 
TheWriteAlex said:
The question was not an invitation to make a dogmatic statement by citing one of the many, many holy books created by the human species in an attempt to explain certain physical and philosophical quandaries (the creation of the universe/earth/life, the problem of evil, etc. etc). Some of these things have already been explained by science; some of them haven't but eventually will, and perhaps some never will. But do not issue or imply dogmatic statements like, "aliens are not in the Bible, therefore they cannot exist." It is this kind of ridiculous, fallacious thinking that has resulted in all the problems the huWwman species faced and continues to face.

Science has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the conditions for life can occur all over the universe and that the universe is made up of similar elements that can be found all across it. It is not a stretch to postulate that other highly intelligent lifeforms do indeed exist elsewhere in this universe. Thinking that they will ever visit us, or trying to determine their thought processes, intentions, or even their experience of reality, is where science (nor the Bible) cannot help . . . at the moment.
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Can you prove this?......."other highly intelligent lifeforms"
Why is out always assumed that if THEY are out there, THEY are more intelligent than us?
If post are to be make as fact, then be able to absolutely prove the fact.
 
rolling7 said:
Can you prove this?......."other highly intelligent lifeforms"
Why is out always assumed that if THEY are out there, THEY are more intelligent than us?
If post are to be make as fact, then be able to absolutely prove the fact.
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Can you prove that you have basic reading comprehension?
 
TheWriteAlex said:
The Bible doesn't mention A LOT of things, Reba, things which have been proven by science beyond a reasonable doubt. Stop using it (the Bible) as the basis for answers to otherwise secular and purely speculative questions.


As for me, I believe 100% there are alien beings out there. In the vastness of the cosmos, we are surely not alone, but the space time continuum and our current understanding of it makes it impossible for us to ever reach life beyond our own solar system

Watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
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I believe that. So far we have not found any life forms. There are million of planets all over in deep space. We will never know. Beside, we might have come or was from another planet and move here on Earth. Remember what the NASA are thinking about having to settle in Mars or other habitable planet as we are over crowded here. It is going to be long time before we can do that. Right now I am not sure if there is any life forms or not. :dunno:
 
TheWriteAlex said:
It only brings in your "belief system" because it challenges it by design and because your "belief system" has no answer for it. Rather than asking, "Well, why might my belief system not have an answer?" You instead wish to disallow a rational and logical thought process. Instead of the truth, you reach a dogmatic conclusion that something must be the way it is because someone/something says so, and does not allow for possibilities outside that "belief system."
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If you are confident in your beliefs, then it shouldn't matter to you what I state about my beliefs.

Nothing I posted prevented you from posting to the contrary.

Free discourse allows even for opinions that aren't mainstream.

It allows for possibilities outside of the majority belief system. :)
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Can you prove that you have basic reading comprehension?
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I can prove I can read between the lines. Your statements, while self-explanatory,
are un-provable. They may be a bunch of dumb asses out there but I can't prove it and neither can anyone else. Nevertheless, my statement makes as much sense as yours does.
 
I hope I don't get banned over this..............

A Christian friend told me to check Ezekiel 1 4-11....

... and some stuff in Jobs. I will need to review.
 
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We most certainly cannot be the only aliens out there... There are tons and tons of galaxies with replicas of earth. Just think about it for once, you religious people. Don't follow something written, follow your common sense.
 
lanapoo said:
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We most certainly cannot be the only aliens out there... There are tons and tons of galaxies with replicas of earth. Just think about it for once, you religious people. Don't follow something written, follow your common sense.
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why don't you think about it for once on religious perspective too? :)

Common Sense dictates that if we cannot be the only aliens out there... then there should be a proof of aliens. Where is it? :)
 
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The last link is meant to be... Well a *cough* you figure it out. :).

http://m.cbsnews.com/blogsstorysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=71&catid=20039658&videofeed=null





http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/06/nasa-scientist-evidence-extraterrestrial-life?cat=science&type=article





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYgMX6dsj8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
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I don't believe in in it-- I know there's life out there, and there is probably intelligent life out there as well capable of being on the same level as humans. If dolphins are of equal or more intelligent than humans; just the lack of opposible thumb prevents them from colonizing the planet right here on Earth, then it stands to reason, it is neither by chance nor coincidence. It opens the door to far many possibilities than we can think of.

The mere existence of bacteria in our solar system is enough to crack the door open to the probability of more complex, multicellular lifeforms.

However with our current understanding of space-time contintum and the rate of expanding universe, we will never see it within our lifetime, or for a very long time; providing we didn't destroy ourselves in the process.

Based on the law of probability and our current understanding of evolution, it is a fact there are other complex lifeforms out there. I don't need to see it to know it. I don't need a book to tell me. I don't need to feel it. Math already support what I currently understand.
 
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rolling7 said:
TheWriteAlex said:
Can you prove that you have basic reading comprehension?
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I can prove I can read between the lines. Your statements, while self-explanatory,
are un-provable. They may be a bunch of dumb asses out there but I can't prove it and neither can anyone else. Nevertheless, my statement makes as much sense as yours does.
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There was a paper released recently by Nature under Douglas Theobald which debunks creationist science in favour of evolutionary science. (http://theobald.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Theobald_2010_Nature_all.pdf)

If the idea all lifeforms arose at the same time was falisfied, then why should we expect to think Earth is the only planet capable of harbouring sentient beings?
 
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Jiro said:
lanapoo said:
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We most certainly cannot be the only aliens out there... There are tons and tons of galaxies with replicas of earth. Just think about it for once, you religious people. Don't follow something written, follow your common sense.
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why don't you think about it for once on religious perspective too? :)

Common Sense dictates that if we cannot be the only aliens out there... then there should be a proof of aliens. Where is it? :)
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Post-modernist relativism has no place in science.

I don't even know how that school of thinking penerated our society.
 
Reba said:
If you are confident in your beliefs, then it shouldn't matter to you what I state about my beliefs.

Nothing I posted prevented you from posting to the contrary.

Free discourse allows even for opinions that aren't mainstream.

It allows for possibilities outside of the majority belief system. :)
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His stance is not even a belief system. It's proven and verified with physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics all across the board. It is not even a matter of opinion.

The reason why it matters to him is because anti-intellectualism is literally killing the human race right now. Far too many lives are being lost to faith-healing, quantum medicine and old wives' tales.
 
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